"Itâ€™s all risk. And if it isnâ€™t, it needs to be. The real trick is to find the risk that is right for you, a risk that doesnâ€™t take you so far out of your own identity that itâ€™s not a you that you recognize whoâ€™s doing the writing."

-- Jim Krusoe

#Real Quotes #Writing Quotes #Risk Quotes

“One person with commitment accomplishes more than a thousand with an opinion.”

Source : Twitter post from Dec 09, 2016
“Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!”
“Never stay in a bad marriage, and don't hang around with psycho coke fiends.”
“I went out to Bali, and I cast all of these supporting roles. I love that stuff. I just love actors. And then, Ryan Murphy asked me to direct second unit for him on Eat Pray Love. I was already booked on something else, but I joined them later. And then, I wrote him a thank you email and I got no response. I was like, "Okay, that's it." We didn't interact much on set either.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves.”

Source : Esther Earl, Lori Earl, Wayne Earl (2014). “This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl”, p.14, Penguin UK
“Everybody I know in England was raised on Mose Allison.”
“I look upon enthusiasm, in all other points but that of religion, to be a very necessary turn of mind; as indeed it is a vein which nature seems to have marked with more or less strength, in the tempers of most men. No matter what the object is, whether business, pleasures or the fine arts: whoever pursues them to any purpose must do so con amore.”

Source : William Melmoth (1805). “Fitzosborne's Letters on Several Subjects”, p.1
“I know I have patterns and I've always tried hard to avoid them. There are definitely certain things in my music, if I'm looking back, "Well, that was a period where I was experimenting with a certain kind of chord structure or a certain kind of sound." I've tried really hard, but I'd be hard pressed to tell you what that sound, what that tangible sound of "me" is.”

Source : Interview with Mark Richardson, pitchfork.com. July 10, 2006.

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